Posted by Steve on 3, 2000 at 4:11 PM:
In Reply to: DOS questions. (I also have several more down at the pc2jamma/ipac thread) posted by Agent Davis on 2, 2000 at 9:40 PM:
technically, if you use win95 or win98 you are using dos as they run on top of dos.
You have 3 different boot options that I know of. Let me know which you prefer and I will give you more details:
1) Create a boot disk for arcadeos. When you want to run arcadeos put the disk in. Otherwise it will run windows.
2) Create a boot menu. When you boot your pc you are prompted to boot windows or arcadeos. If you don't respond within a set time it boots arcadeos
3) Change your BIOS boot settings (this is what I'm doing). If you have multiple drives and your bios supports it, you can put dos + arcadeos one drive and windows on the other. You then tell the bios what disk to boot from.
there is no need to install dos as win95/98 does the same and suppports larger drives + disk compression.
arcadeos leaves your monitor at the arcade frequency when you exit.
yes--if you have a film scanner. A flat bed with a film/transparency tray should work ok. I tried to scan film on top of my flat bed and it didn't work.
: Okay, I'm getting there. I think my hardware configurations are just about figured out. Now, I'm going to get a pc and dos right from it. However I'm going to have windows installed to make changes to it. I'm 19, so I've never had to deal with dos and therefore no nothing about it. How do I make my computer boot directly up into dos when I turn it on? How about booting directly into arcadeos on turn on (I believe that this is what most are doing)? How do I type command lines in? i.e. I see something that says type ARCADEOS at the command line prompt so I type exactly that and it says invalid command blah blah blah. What I want to do is get a pc, install windows, and put all the emulators that arcadeos supports onto it including all of the roms. I figure this will be about 6-8 gigs. I want it configured so that when I turn my pc on it does the little beep thing and boots straight into dos but will allow me to exit out and into windows if I need to. One last important question. I don't want to destroy my arcade monitor so if I fire up arcadeOS and everything is great and I exit out of it and into dos, won't the new vga frequency kick in and hurt my monitor? Thanks a ton everyone. I'm going to write an extensive web page on all of this with pictures to "give back" what everyone has helped me with. You guys are awesome. Thank you.
: p.s. Does 35mm film scan good? I don't have a dig. camera. Also, what type of wire to buy for my project?